In 2006, Tran Anh Kim became known as a dissident writer and as a member of Bloc 8406, a pro-democracy movement founded on April 8, 2006. Tran Anh Kim, born 1949, is a former lieutenant colonel and former deputy political commissar of the Military Committee of Thai Binh town, who is serving 13 years for pro-democracy activities. It was reported that he carried out hunger strikes in prison calling for the right of Vietnamese citizens to elect their government and to protest the government’s handling of a toxic fish crisis. In May 2016, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was transferred from Xuyen Moc prison in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province to Prison No. Observers believe his extraordinarily long sentence was in retaliation for his claim of coercion.
They initially accused him of evading the telephone use tax, but later charged him under article 79 of the penal code with “aiming to overthrow the people’s government.” In January 2010, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City put him and other rights activists, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, and Nguyen Tien Trung, on trial for involvement in “a reactionary organization called the Vietnamese Democratic Party.” At the trial, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc lodged a complaint alleging that authorities coerced his confession, but the court ignored his motion. The police arrested Tran Huynh Duy Thuc in May 2009. He also set up three blogging sites ( Tran Dong Tran, Psonkhanh, and Change We Need) on which he posted his observations and analyses of social and political issues. In late 2005, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc created an independent research group called Nhom Nghien cuu Chan (Research Group to Revive ) to study social, economic, and political issues in Vietnam. He played an important role advocating for the development of information technology and digital communications in Vietnam. He is a businessman and the founder and general director of EIS/OCI, an information technology company that provided telephone and other services over the Internet. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, born 1966, is serving 16 years for calling for democracy and a multi-party political system in Vietnam.
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